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Join us for an evening of dinner, dancing, and celebration at our 2nd Annual Mardi Gras Ball: Vegas Nights! Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love the night before Valentine's Day as we raise funds to benefit The Pink Daisy Project (formerly Breast Cancer Sisterhood) in their noble mission to support young women and their families as they undergo treatment for breast cancer.
Les Faeries Vertes is Seattle's Mardi Gras krewe formed in 2008 to raise funds for a charity selected by our members each year. We will be hosting our second annual Mardi Gras event with an evening of Mardi Gras entertainment by Miss Kitty Baby, tableau parade, cocktail hour, a catered dinner, dessert dash, raffle, and night dancing at the Knights of Columbus Hall at 722 East Union Street on Saturday February 13th, 2010.
The suggested ticket donation ticket price of $80/person includes the full catered dinner, drinks, and dancing the night away to benefit The Pink Daisy Project. Tickets available at www.lesfaeriesvertes.org. Advance tickets only -- no...
Publicola.net has some great writing on the dirty world of local politics. Stranger defectors Josh Feit and Erica Barnett are producing some great work and have convinced wealthy people to pay them to do so over the past year. Advertisers have been harder to convince. After a year of being sponsored by tech millionaires with very little ad revenue ("mid-four figures," according to our source) in my opinion Publicola should concentrate on news and drop the hipster reportage. If Publicola "gets" the Internet so much (the bottom line - no print costs like the ones that burden the alt-... 
"Outsider" they call him. "Underdog." He biked to work once. Attacking right wing Republican lunatics is easy, but it's much more pleasurable to call out faux leftists who use the slick PR resources of folks on a billionaire's payroll to guide them, gently, into office. A kind, gentle insertion - painless, for now. Oh man, I'm gonna have a good time calling Mike McGinn out on his hypocrisy in the coming years. Band of advocates, activists now McGinn's likely insider - Seattle Times 11-13-200 "David Postman, a spokesman for the Vulcan real-estate development company, which did not make an endorsement in the general election, is advising McGinn on media relations during the transition" From comments thread: "Well at least we have Dave Postman, Spokesman for Vulcan advising McGinn on Media relations. Wheew! dodged a bullet there. McGinn might have released something that wasn't Paul Allen approved." --- See also: David Postman on McGinn’s Transition Team. May Get Communications Director Spot in New Administration.- BY... 
McGinn softens stance on viaduct tunnel replacement --- 10-19-2009 8:00 p.m. Messenger editor Clark Humphrey is leaning toward McGinn, but has not made any official announcement yet. -Gern --- McGinn Reverses Course, Says He’ll Accept Tunnel Decision 
The Stranger still wants to be a player in the world of Seattle politics and they gently suggest that you vote "Mike McGinn for Mayor" this week (see cover). McGinn's a Sierra Club baby boomer. I mean, if he had a background with Earth First! or something more nitty-gritty maybe I'd be interested. Here's how I voted: Greg Nickels. Jordan Royer. Dow Constantine. And no to the fucking bag tax - another regressive fee that exploits the poor in a State so corrupt that billionaires don't pay income tax. Shit, I'm watching (asinine Seattle Weekly editor) Mike Seely on public access TV right now and he's saying no to the bag tax too. Not sure what the Stranger (Dan Savage and his army of sycophants) thinks about it since I only look at their covers. -Alex 
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels downs five pints of pale ale and four dozen oysters before most people have gotten out of bed, all this to gird himself for his unending day of town meetings attended exclusively by cranks, conspiracy-theorists and common street loons; and then there are those soul-numbing shopping mall openings and cub scout extravaganzas where he must shake the hands of countless retirees brimming with swine flu. A lesser man — a man without his constitution, his love of life, his indomitable grit — would just kill himself. Mr. Mayor? For doing this thankless job I say thank you. 
Eager to start linking to the Seattle P-I again, so here's a VIP Seattle old-money obit: "Stim Bullitt was off climbing Vesper Peak when Nixon became the first American president to resign his office. Courtesy of Seattlepi.com 
Got this press release yesterday from Mercury Seattle. There's nothing on their website other than an address and that is pretentious. I know some of the people that work there and they are good folks. Very secretive, though. And pretentious. Readers of today's Seattle Times (Mayor Nickels gets 2nd challenger, ex-official of Sierra Club Michael McGinn) won't find out about Mercury, or the mysterious pizza parlor where McGinn made his announcement. That would be Piecora's, where the ladies from legendary early-90s Seattle band Seven Year Bitch used to work. Dear Member of the Media: Michael McGinn will be making an announcement tomorrow at Piecora’s Pizza on Capitol Hill. Please join him at 11:30 a.m. When: Tuesday, March 24 at 11:30 a.m. Where: Piecora’s Pizza 1401 East Madison St About Michael McGinn 
WSDOT, King County and the City of Seattle will host short walking tours of the viaduct on Saturday, March 21 while the structure is closed to traffic for an inspection. During the tour, participants will get an up-close look at the structure that is only available when it is closed to traffic. Participants will also learn about upcoming construction on the viaduct’s south end, and the recommendation to replace the central waterfront section of the viaduct with a bored tunnel and transit and city street improvements. Where: Tours will begin at the Columbia Street on-ramp before continuing to the viaduct’s lower deck. When: Saturday, March 21. Tours will be held between 9:30 a.m. and noon. Each tour will last approximately 45 minutes. Cost: Free Reservations are required. We will give priority to people who have not attended previous tours. If you would like to participate, please e-mail your name and contact information to viaduct@wsdot.wa.gov or call 1–888–AWV–LINE. After we receive your request,... 
Soon… and I mean real soon… people are going to start dying. I mean, yeah, I know. But soon people are going to start dying. 
Hi all - please forgive the lateness of the newsletter this month. You will receive another one in 2 weeks in time for March... 
While on the way to another Seattle Aquarium visit I disregarded the safety of my kid and parked us under Seattle's decrepit Alaskan Way Viaduct. I noticed that a rain gutter (see photos) was clogged with debris, and that a hole had been welded through the pipe to release water onto the street. ALL of the gutters I saw within a block or so looked like this. I'm sure the engineers dealing with the structural nightmare that is the Alaskan Way Viaduct are aware of this. Still, it seems shoddy - like something you'd see in a third world country. Related: The Slate in 2009 - by Geov Parrish 
Hi all, my apologies in getting this out a bit late this month! News/Events Flooding Season is Here - Be Prepared! 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 6, 2008 CONTACT: James Haydu, 206-774-5225 or james@pikeplacemarket.org Pike Place Market Food Vendors and Restaurants “Go Green” by Composting Food Waste Partnership with Cedar Grove Composting saves food waste from landfills SEATTLE – It’s fashionable these days to tout being sustainable, but the proof is always in how an organization walks the talk. At the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA), staff constantly seeks ways to be eco-friendly when it comes to maintaining the 101-year-old local icon. “They are one of the most sustainable organizations in the Seattle area,” said Stephan Banchero of Cedar Grove Composting. Cedar Grove knows the Market well—when it was Seattle Disposal, it collected the Market’s garbage from the 1930s until the late 1990s, and Mr. Banchero’s grandmother worked at a Market produce stand in her youth.
The PDA operates a recycling station at which staff separates out recyclables from garbage and prepares... 
Sarah Palin falls for prank call by Montreal radio hosts, ends up on YouTube A notorious Montreal-based comedy duo named The Master Avengers has released a recording of a prank phone call made to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, in which one of the participants pretends to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "I must say, Governor Palin, I love the documentary they made on your life, you know, Hustler's "Nailin Palin." 
Bus vs. light rail: Which is your ticket to ride?
As the crowds grow inside Seattle-area buses and trains, there's no longer much debate about whether the region needs more transit. The big argument is about how to do it. Seattle Times transportation reporter 
Endorsements won't buy you a cup of coffee any more than my opinion will if you don't have three bucks. Still, there's something exciting about these Downtown Dispatch endorsements because the person writing this right now last voted in 2000. That's right, after getting burned by moderate Republican president Bill Clinton in 1992 I went without voting until 2000, when I threw my vote away for Al Gore and then stopped voting again. But now I'm back, greatly inspired by "that one" to go vote. And I'm hoping he is more progressive than he's letting on right now. I have endured the "global greed is good so let's start a drug war and deregulate everything and destroy the unions" era through Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush and now I'm anxious for the Obama era to begin. Even if that's really just blind faith. PRESIDENT: Obama U.S. HOUSE 7th District: Jim McDermott U.S. HOUSE 8th District: Darcy Burner 
"I recently had the pleasure of talking about our city with former City Council President Peter Steinbrueck. An award-winning architect, Steinbrueck contributed a deep knowledge of civic design and planning issues to local politics as a council member from 1997-2007, and has long been a champion of forward-thinking issues around urban livability. He has championed policies like Seattle's Green Factor that push the agenda for sustainability, and authored a Downtown Livability Plan that called for major residential improvements like parks and schools to accompany Mayor Nickels' increased height and density allowances in downtown Seattle. Though he denies an interest in running, he is still often mentioned as the most likely opponent to Mayor Nickels in next year's election." http://www.worldchanging.com/local/seattle/archives/008879.html 
Erica at the Stranger says that a mogul, a Belltown zillionaire, a Fremont landowner, a downtown developer and a cell-phone magnate have given some money to the No To Proposition 1 campaign. My opinion, so valuable that you may trade it along with four bucks or so for a decadent beverage of coffee and fat at your local corporate coffee hut: the global financial crisis has just begun and the Prop 1 tax hike ain't gonna pass. Also, the vulgar and inane comments below Erica's piece remind me of how useless 99% of comments on news stories are. I feel violated just knowing I read some of this pollution. If I'm gonna pay to attend a class, I want to hear the teacher lecture, not a bunch of potty-mouthed college-boys!
Freeman Dumps $100K Into Anti-Transit “Campaign” posted by on October 14 at 15:49 PM
By KOMO Staff 
Seattle to the World: Olympic Sculpture Park 
The Seattle Sinner celebrates six years of publishing this month. Also this month - another less satanic monthly Seattle tabloid, The Belltown Messenger, celebrates five years of publishing. Sinner publisher Chuck Foster writes an editorial attacking the coffee shops that refuse to carry the Sinner, using the CS, F and MF words with abandon. There are ads for Piece of Mind tobacco accessories shop in Fremont, porn stores and the Seattle premiere of a new movie called "Retardead," from the creators of "Monsturd."
OCTOBER 8, 2008 IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW FUNDING FOR HISTORIC LANDMARKS AWARDED THROUGHOUT KING COUNTY Awards include funds to repair the clock tower at King Street Station (Seattle) - 4Culture, King County’s cultural services agency, is delighted to announce nine projects have been awarded $150,000 through the brand-new Landmark Challenge Grants program. Facilitated by Preservation 4Culture, the new program provides matching funds for "bricks and mortar" projects involving significant historic properties throughout King County. One notable project is a plan to rebuild the clock mechanism and lighting in the clock tower at King Street Station between Pioneer Square and the Chinatown/International District. The Seattle Department of Transportation will use its $22,727 grant to restore the four clocks - part of a larger rehabilitation of the 1906 structure, now a central hub in the region's public transportation network. "We're thrilled... 
If one is forced to go to Bellevue - Seattle's sterile, culture-free Eastern suburb - they can drive. I'm not in the mood to pay for a train to the East Side, are you? Dispatch Says Vote NO on Proposition 1!
Thank you Jim McDermott for the courage. re: Rep. McDermott will enter the following remarks into the Record as to why he voted no today on the Senate bailout.
For Immediate Release, Friday, October 3, 2008 McDermott Votes No on Senate Bailout Bill "The Senate dug an enormous ditch alongside Main Street, and they want the House to drive into it. That is exactly where the President has driven this economy over seven years."
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) Remarks The Senate Bailout Friday, October 3, 2008 On Thursday morning, the morning after the Senate passed a very different bailout bill, two things happened. The filings for new unemployment benefits hit a seven year high, and a number of telephones melted in my congressional office as my constituents called in with their opinions. By the thousands, the people of the 7 th Congressional District are absolutely enraged by what the Senate did.Senate Republicans blocked Senate Democrats from legislation that delivers for Main Street. Senate Republicans demanded... |
